We visit Barnacle Bros, an east LA sculpture and custom fabrication studio. They specialize in the crazy, quirky, and tough to build. Check out their workshop full of old Hollywood props, trash castles, bronze barnacles, and much more.

Paper Note: The user records a message, the program transforms it to a waveform, and outputs a file ready for laser cutting. This project was a result of a module at the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design.

Italian designer Fabio Novembre designed these lovely pieces inspired by the Venetian Carnivale which highlights the centuries-old tradition of masks, whereby people masquerade around the Italian city concealing their identity.

Ento. Eating insects by 2020? Fascinating project by Aran Dasan, Jacky Chung, Jonathan Fraser and Julene Aguirre-Bielschowsky, Innovation Design Engineering students at Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.